Hot-water heater.



' To all whom t may concern:

@FFCE if i GEORGE-n; Gauner-IER, or 'cmeeeoimrnors Y ,norwereanna'rsa aaneen.

"Application filed November 9, 1908. Serial No. 461,717.

Be it known that I, Gronau R.` GALL.;- oHeR, a citizenof the U nited States, residing at Chicago, in the county ot' Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful- Im rovements in Hot-Tater Heaters of which the following-is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in hot Water heaters, and more particularly to a portable device of this .character which can utilize any fuel or gas to heat the system, and insure a perfect radiation of heat from the circulating medium.

A further object is to provide an improvedvheating chamber which insures the rapid heating of the liquid intransit from the radiator back to the radiator. Y

With these and other objects 1n vlew the invention consists l1n certain novel features of construction, and combinations and ar y hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim. v

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1, is a view in side elevation partly broken away illustrating my improvements. 2, is a View in cross section on the line :1f-.f

of Fig 3; and:-Fig. 3, is a view in long-i@ tudinal section on the line g/-g/ of Fig. 2.

1 represents a radiator which may be made of various forms, and preferably composed of several units so that the radiating surface may be increased or decreased to suit4 conditions, and I do not confine myself to the particular form of radiator, but may employ any capable of carrying out my invention.

2*'represents an improved heating chamber as shown more clearly in Figs. 2 and 3. This heating chamber is shown of cylindrical form, although it may be ofother shapes, and is provided with a horizontal partition 3 extending throughout the chamber, and perforated at one end `as shown atfia. This partition conforms in a measure to the shape of the bottom of theheater, pret'- erably but a short distance therefrom, so' as to provide an elongated, shallow and wide lower passage' for the water, and as this passage is subjected to the direct' heat from any suitable form of burner 4, bel-ow the cylinder, the Water will be rapidly heated in this passage as the Water will be compelled to flow with substantially uniform velocity over the parts of the bottom sub-I jected to heat. The perforations 4a are ar- Fig:

ranged in a substantially straight line extending transversely across the partition at a supply pipe 9 'connected therewith,I al` though it may be filled by hand, if there be no water supply in thehouse.`

l A pipelO connects the forward end ot the upper compartment 11 of the heating cylinder, with the upper portion of the radiator lat. one end, and a return pipe 12 connects thc lower, portion of the opposite end of the radiator with the lower compartment or passage 7 at thc forward-end of the heating cylinder. An air vent 13 is provided in the upper portion of the radiator to permit the escape of air in filling the system.

The operation of my improvements is as follows: Assuming the system to be empty. the cock ti is turned and the heating cylinder` the radiator, and all of the pipes are l,tilled with water, the air vent 13 being Specification of Letten Patent. A Patented Got. 1&9, 1969.

and due to the differences in temperature,

the Water in compartment 7 will move along said chamber through the perforations 4 at the end of the cylinder, and thence through the chamber 11 to the pipe 10, and through the radiator 1 andy pipe 12 back to the forward end of the'compartment 7, thus insuring a perfect circulation. As is Well known, the water returning through pipe 12 will be the coldest in the system, and will receive, in compartment 7, the direct heatfrom the burner, and. as this compartment is comparatively long. wide and thin, or in other words, the liquid is thinly spreadover a large area, the water 'will be rapidly heated and thc circulation will be uniformi, so that thel Water will be constantly in circulation, and can be quickly heated to the temperature desired.

A great many slight changes might be of parts described without departing from my invention, and hence I do not restrict myself to the precise details set forth, but consider myself at liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having thus described my invention what A I claim -as new and desire to secure by. Letters Patent is: v p

In a device of the class described, a radiator, in combination with a heating chamber, a horizontal partition arranged a short distance above the bottom thereof, and dividing said heating chamberinto two compartments, Said partition being arranged close to the bottom of the chamber to maintain the water close to the heating surface and perforated at one end, a lreservoir, a pipe connectingA the reservoir with the lower compartment at the end of the heating cham ber opposite from said perforations, a pipe connecting the upper Compartment with 'one end of the Iradiator a pipe connecting the other end of the .radiator with the' lower compartment, the perforations in said partition being small to project the Water up- Wardly into the-upper compartment in a number of small streams, and extending in a substantially straight line i transversely thereof, substantially as described.

.In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE R. GLLAGHER.

Witnesses:

ANNA L. EKVALL, HELEN F. LILLIs. 

